BBM Coming to the iPhone!

[Savor]

Don't knock it until you try it. There is a world outside Apple before iPhone came along. People bashing it or skeptical are probably the same people who didn't understand the big deal about copy and paste and now use it all the time. Not all the freshest and coolest ideas come from Apple.

 

[Leet Apple]

But in order for BBM for work properly on the iPhone they would need to fix notifications

 

[sdmcwilliams]

While I've never had a BB or used BBM, this "confirm read" feature could be a critical thing in the business world.

Let's say that it's 11:30pm and you suddenly realize you need Joe to stop by and pick up the widget from a vendor on his way to work tomorrow. This is critical. You'll be in a world of hurt tomorrow if it doesn't happen. You send a standard SMS and there's no reply. You send an email and still no reply.

Should you call him and wake up the whole family? Will he check his phone in the morning in time? Maybe he's "busy" right now? Maybe the network is on the fritz again.

With a "confirm read" feature, you could rest easy KNOWING he got the message, and all is good.

PingChat does the same thing. You get a check with an R when your message is read.

 

[Small White Car]

How can you live in the District and not know anyone with a BB????

Well, none of my friends work for a company that buys our phones for us. Without company e-mail integration there's no compelling reason to get a BB.

Honestly, most people I know didn't have any smart phone before the iPhone. I knew 2 or 3 people with some kind of Palm device, but everyone else just had normal phones.

From 2007 'till now I've seen most of my friends buy iPhones and 1 or 2 of them bought Android phones. (And 1 Sprint Pre.)

I work in media, though, so we were all Mac users a dozen years ago back when hardly anyone else was. That probably affected us.

 

[JD914]

I'm waiting for Apple to come out with their own instant messenger **iMessenger**

It will work on wifi only

 

[JD914]

Don't knock it until you try it. There is a world outside Apple before iPhone came along. People bashing it or skeptical are probably the same people who didn't understand the big deal about copy and paste and now use it all the time. Not all the freshest and coolest ideas come from Apple.

I have to agree with you, iPhone fanboys are among the most ignorant of the mobile device world.

 

[Small White Car]

I have to agree with you, iPhone fanboys are among the most ignorant of the mobile device world.

Oh please. Even the most die-hard Apple fanatic can tell you the stories of PR woe whenever Apple squeezed too tightly on the app store and pissed off a developer. They'll readily admit the downsides of a curated app store. (They'll then tell you they don't care, but they'll at least know the stories.)

But try asking an Android fan what makes Google less than perfect and you'll just get a blank stare. "But...they let me do whatever I want!" is the most likely response.

 

[Applejuiced]

So does that mean RIMM is throwing in the towel?
If Android and iOS is getting acess to BBM then what's really left there for people to stay with blackberry?

 

[MACis122]

I'd be all for this. I just wish apple would put a native app on the iphone for it, so we stopped getting raped paying for outrageous texting plans

 

[VulchR]

BBM on iOS would be a boon for my family, which is split between Apple and Blackberry. The Blackberry side of the family doesn't really like Whatsapp....

 

[rioja]

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Just use whatsapp. It is available on all 3 platforms and pretty much everyone that I know, even with a BB, has it.

These third party solutions work great until they go down. I got all of my friends using kik messenger. All it took was one time of kik's servers going down for all my friends to quit using it.

BBM and Blackberry servers in general have their fair share of outages too. Usually they effect a large chunk of users (like North American wide) and last a long time.

It's not perfect.

 

[heisenberg123]

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BBM and Blackberry servers in general have their fair share of outages too. Usually they effect a large chunk of users (like North American wide) and last a long time.

It's not perfect.

agreed, i was on a blackberry for 3 years before coming to apple, RIM servers are not perfect, atleast whatsapp informs people and gives updates to the progess of the outages

im still having a hard time understanding what whataspp is missing that BBM has? i know it doesnt have read reciepts but it does have delivery ones and thats all that matters that it got delivered properly

sure you can only have 5 people in the group chat at the moment,

i think blackberry users only had BBM as there reason for what made blackberry good, and now that there is whatsapp they come up with an excuse posible to but it down so they can still have that 1 remaining thing that makes blackberries so good to them. Either that or they want to be a a special club for Berries.

so if/when BBM goes cross platform now all apple/android users have to install an app, but blackberry users can do the same right now but apperntly dont want to, is blackberry app world having server issues or something?

 

[jw nyc]

agreed, i was on a blackberry for 3 years before coming to apple, RIM servers are not perfect, atleast whatsapp informs people and gives updates to the progess of the outages

im still having a hard time understanding what whataspp is missing that BBM has? i know it doesnt have read reciepts but it does have delivery ones and thats all that matters that it got delivered properly

sure you can only have 5 people in the group chat at the moment,

i think blackberry users only had BBM as there reason for what made blackberry good, and now that there is whatsapp they come up with an excuse posible to but it down so they can still have that 1 remaining thing that makes blackberries so good to them. Either that or they want to be a a special club for Berries.

so if/when BBM goes cross platform now all apple/android users have to install an app, but blackberry users can do the same right now but apperntly dont want to, is blackberry app world having server issues or something?

The only thing I can say is try BBM and then try using Whatsapp. Even if most of the functionality is the same, the speed, UI, ease of use etc are so much better on BBM. You wouldn't understand it until you've really used it.

To be honest, I think Whatsapp kinda sucks. My favorite iPhone messenger is Beluga Messenger by a lot.

 

[heisenberg123]

The only thing I can say is try BBM and then try using Whatsapp. Even if most of the functionality is the same, the speed, UI, ease of use etc are so much better on BBM. You wouldn't understand it until you've really used it.

To be honest, I think Whatsapp kinda sucks. My favorite iPhone messenger is Beluga Messenger by a lot.

but i said i had a blackberry for 3 years, i use to think it was great and was the first thing i said to non berry users that made blackberrys so great, but its not cross platform, whatsapp is, why are people still so antsy for BBM to come to appple or android when there is already many similar options, it all comes back to blackberry users not wanting to go to there silly app world and download a 500kb app, big time joke to me that they want this excluisivity, i actually what bbm to go cross platform so i can hear the new reason that makes bb's so good


PS i like Beluga also, fun app for group chats

 

[charliehustle]

I think the fact that soo many people already have BBM is huge. I doubt that even 10% of all iphones have whatsapp on them, plus, some people might not want to pay for it, even though I think it's free on BB.

 

[nidserz]

I don't usually like paying 9.99$ or 19.99$ for apps in the App store, and even though every BlackBerry has BBM for free I would pay whatever it costs for BBM on iPhone. Currently I have a BlackBerry with a data plan only, JUST for BBM. That's how much my family and friends rely on it. I love my iPhone, but some people just can't get over BBM, me included. Something you will understand only after you have used it. I have missed lunches, birthdays, etc because someone sends me a bbm, but it didnt go through ( I was using iPhone) and they didn't figure to text me. Just as an example.